Help Ban Mink Farming in the U.S.!

Congress has introduced legislation to end mink fur farming in the United States. Known as the Mink: Vectors for Infection Risk in the United States Act (Mink VIRUS Act, HR 2185), this bill aims to phase out mink farms nationwide within a year. It also includes a grant program designed to fully compensate the facilities’ owners for their operations.

Please, tell your U.S. representative that you support a nationwide ban on mink farming!

Minks are intelligent, sensitive animals with keen vision, smell, and hearing. They are skilled climbers and agile swimmers who can dive to depths of 16 feet to search underwater nooks and crannies for food. But on fur factory farms, minks are jammed in horrendously small, filthy cages with no access to the bodies of water they naturally would live near and use.

These conditions cause immense suffering. They frequently show signs of extreme psychological distress—frantic circling and self-mutilation, and suffer from infections, gaping wounds, and other illnesses and injuries that commonly go untreated. After a miserable life, these animals are killed via crude gassing or neck-breaking. A single fur coat takes the lives of 50 to 60 minks.

These farms also pose serious public health risks. They were hotbeds for COVID-19 outbreaks and remain a serious biological threat for the creation of the next global pandemic.

Please use the form below to urge Congress to shut down the country’s dangerous, inhumane mink fur factory farms for good.

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